A FLICKERING CAUSE EAST PAKISTANIS PLEDGE TO FIGHT TO THE DEATH BUT MOSTLY THEY DON’T
WALL STREET JOURNAL April 21, 1971
They Lack Arms, Leadership To Prolong Their Revolt; No Aid By Other Nations Too Many Patrick Henrys ?
By Peter R. Kann (Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal)
NEAR MEHERPUR, East Pakistan—By ox-cart and by rickshaw, on bicycles and an occasional truck, but mostly by foot, people and soldiers of Bangla Desh—the Bengal Nation are retreating towards the Indian border.
From Meherpur, half a mile further back, come the thump of the West Pakistan army’s mortars and the crackle of its small-arms fire.
“Punjabis (West Pakistanis). Bombs, cannon at Meherpur,” shouts a group of Bengalis clinging to an India-bound truck that stops only long enough to let the last armed man at this village crossroad climb abroad.
They Lack Arms, Leadership To Prolong Their Revolt; No Aid By Other Nations Too Many Patrick Henrys ?
By Peter R. Kann (Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal)
NEAR MEHERPUR, East Pakistan—By ox-cart and by rickshaw, on bicycles and an occasional truck, but mostly by foot, people and soldiers of Bangla Desh—the Bengal Nation are retreating towards the Indian border.
From Meherpur, half a mile further back, come the thump of the West Pakistan army’s mortars and the crackle of its small-arms fire.
“Punjabis (West Pakistanis). Bombs, cannon at Meherpur,” shouts a group of Bengalis clinging to an India-bound truck that stops only long enough to let the last armed man at this village crossroad climb abroad.
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